It has been 98 days since the massacre in the school at Newtown, CT.
In those 98 days, 2,244 Americans have died from gunshot wounds.
But the Senate has dropped the ban on assault weapons from Diane Feinstein's gun control bill, because it cannot get enough votes to pass it; and it would kill the rest of the bill on background checks.
If the killing of 20 children and 6 adults in the Newtown school is not enough to bring us to our senses, then I despair that we will curb this gun craze any time soon.
Ralph
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It's true that most of those 2,240 people did not die from assault weapons. But no one has yet given any coherent reason why anyone needs to have guns of warfare.
ReplyDeleteIs there any purpose served by them other than giving their owners a greater sense of power?
And why is that a reason to allow something so lethal to exist in our society?